(It has 5 stars on Amazon with over 1,800 reviews. This is not an accident.)

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When you want to write quote after quote after freaking quote about happiness down, to read a memoir that addresses so much of the meaty stuff of life. When you want to know what it’s like to grow up with the mother from Carrie.

I’m shin-deep in the Stephen King audiobook world, and I tell you what. This one was the first one that I would drive around just to listen to. This was the first one I had to read, HAD TO KNOW. Ooh I liked this one.

It’s interesting to me when someone’s first book is the book I like best. Like Nick Hornby. Is the first book the most raw? Most truthful? Is that the story they wanted to tell most?